Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 | ||||
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Released | May 23, 2006 | |||
Recorded | May 20, 2005 | |||
Venue | Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada | |||
Genre | Free improvisation | |||
Length | 56:12 | |||
Label | Les Disques Victo (Canada) | |||
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Fred Frith chronology | ||||
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Duo (Victoriaville) 2005 is a 2006 live album of improvised music by Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith. It was recorded on May 20, 2005 at the 22nd Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Quebec, Canada, [1] and released in May 2006 by Les Disques Victo, the festival's record label.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
All About Jazz | favorable [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
In a review at AllMusic, Thom Jurek referred to Braxton and Frith as "two graying lions of free improvisation [and] innovation", and called their performance on the album "very inspired, playful, and in places, breathtaking". Jurek was particularly impressed with "Improvisation No 3", which he described as "wooly, but ... also so utterly intuitive and sensible it nearly feels like a composed piece". [2]
Writing in All About Jazz Kurt Gottschalk called Braxton and Frith "master improviser[s]: not quoting past masters, not riffing off each other, but simply playing with conviction and having the patience, fortitude, technique and vision to stick with and develop ideas without inflating egos". He described this collaboration as "a chance encounter that paid off royally". [3]
All music by Anthony Braxton and Fred Frith.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Improvisation No 1" | 11:07 |
2. | "Improvisation No 2" | 10:53 |
3. | "Improvisation No 3" | 22:52 |
4. | "Improvisation No 4" | 3:19 |
5. | "Improvisation No 5" | 8:02 |
Sources: Liner notes, [5] Discogs, [6] Anthony Braxton discography, [7] Fred Frith discography. [8]
Sources: Liner notes, [5] Discogs, [6] Anthony Braxton discography, [7] Fred Frith discography. [8]